The U.S. Army and the Lewis & Clark
Expedition
Part 9: Further Readings

Several excellent books on the Lewis
and Clark Expedition should be available at a library or bookstore near
you.

Donald Jackson, Thomas Jefferson and the Stony Mountains: Exploring
the West from Monticello (Urbana: University of Illinois Press,
1981), is a magnificent study that places the Lewis and Clark Expedition
in the context of American history.

James P. Ronda, Lewis and Clark Among the Indians (Lincoln:
University of Nebraska Press, 1984), is key to understanding the expeditions
encounters with the Indians.

Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns, Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the
Corps of Discovery (New York: Knopf, 1997), a well-illustrated
work, accompanies the Public Broadcasting Systems program on
the expedition.

Gary E. Moulton, ed., The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
(Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1988), is the latest and most
extensive edition of the journals kept by the two captains and some
of their men.

Stephen E. Ambrose, Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas
Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West (New York: Simon
and Schuster, 1996), is by a noted historian who has spent many summers
on the Lewis and Clark Trail.

Robert B. Betts, In Search of York: The Slave Who Went to the
Pacific with Lewis and Clark (Boulder: Colorado Associated University
Press, 1985)

David J. Peck, Or Perish in the Attempt: Wilderness Medicine
in the Lewis and Clark Expedition (Helena, Mont.: Farcounty Press,
2002)

Theodore J. Crackel, Mr. Jeffersons Army: Political and Social
Reform of the Military Establishment, 18011809 (New York:
New York University Press, 1987).

William H. Goetzmann, Army Exploration in the American West, 18031863
(Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1959), describes various explorations
undertaken by the Army after the Lewis and Clark Expedition.